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self-pity |
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self-pity n
the act or state of pitying oneself, esp in an exaggerated or self-indulgent manner self-pitying adj self-pityingly adv ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
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His days were filled with morbid self-pity, which eventually engendered in his weak and vacillating mind a hatred for those who had sent him here--for the very men he had at first inwardly thanked for saving him from the ignominy of degradation. Tears came to my eyes then, not tears of self-pity for my predicament, but tears from a heart filled with a great love--a heart that sees the sun of its life and its love setting even as it rises. Then a dampness came into Ebbits's eyes, and I knew that the sorrow of self-pity was his. |
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